Girls I Never Married
Daniel Lusk
Daniel Lusk's memoir, Girls I Never Married, begins in Iowa at the end of the Great Depression. He was born to devoutly religious parents who "were renters and debtors, the working poor." Like many writers of his generation, his life and his writing developed against the backdrop of unrest and amid the struggle for cultural change in America - Civil Rights and Vietnam, the women's movement, communes, sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll - during the latter half of the 20th century. In Girls I Never Married Lusk shares his narrative dowry from mid-western preacher, rancher, and jazz singer to New England professor, poet, and minister of words.
Daniel Lusk
Daniel Lusk's memoir, Girls I Never Married, begins in Iowa at the end of the Great Depression. He was born to devoutly religious parents who "were renters and debtors, the working poor." Like many writers of his generation, his life and his writing developed against the backdrop of unrest and amid the struggle for cultural change in America - Civil Rights and Vietnam, the women's movement, communes, sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll - during the latter half of the 20th century. In Girls I Never Married Lusk shares his narrative dowry from mid-western preacher, rancher, and jazz singer to New England professor, poet, and minister of words.
Daniel Lusk
Daniel Lusk's memoir, Girls I Never Married, begins in Iowa at the end of the Great Depression. He was born to devoutly religious parents who "were renters and debtors, the working poor." Like many writers of his generation, his life and his writing developed against the backdrop of unrest and amid the struggle for cultural change in America - Civil Rights and Vietnam, the women's movement, communes, sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll - during the latter half of the 20th century. In Girls I Never Married Lusk shares his narrative dowry from mid-western preacher, rancher, and jazz singer to New England professor, poet, and minister of words.
About the Author:
Daniel Lusk is an award-winning poet and author of five previous poetry collections. In 2016 his genre-bending essay "Bomb" was awarded a Pushcart Prize. He is also recipient of the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry (Nimrod International Journal), a Gertrude Claytor Memorial Award (Poetry Society of America), and other honors.
A former commentator on books for NPR and well-known for his teaching, he has been a Visiting Poet at the Frost Place in Franconia, N.H., Stranmillis University College-Queens, Belfast, N.I., and Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA. As a Poet-in-the-Schools, he taught children and teachers in more than 100 schools in the U.S. He has been a Resident Fellow at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony and his poetry has been published widely in literary journals and anthologies, among them Poetry, New Letters, Poetry Ireland, Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, The Chariton Review, North American Review, Markings (Scotland), Nimrod International Journal, and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (Billy Collins, Ed.).
An Iowa native, he is a Senior Lecturer of English Emeritus at the University of Vermont.